xxiv, 409 pages 18 cm

"A Doubleday Anchor book, A822."

Theory: Towards a black aesthetic / Hoyt W. Fuller -- Some reflections on the black aesthetic / Larry Neal -- Negro youth speaks / Alain Locke -- You touch my black aesthetic and I'll touch yours / Julian Mayfield -- Black cultural Nationalism / Ron Karenga -- Cultural strangulation, Black literature and the White aesthetic / Addison Gayle Jr -- Black arts, Notebook / John O'Neal -- Afro-American Literary Critics, An introduction / Darwin T. Turner -- Music: Introduction to black aesthetics in music / Jimmy Stewart -- Sorrow songs / W.E.B. DuBois -- Jazz at home / J.A. Rogers -- Changing same (R & B and new black music) / LeRoi Jones -- Black aesthetic imperative / Ron Wellburn -- Reflections on the evolution of Post-War Jazz / Leslie B. Rout Jr -- Comparative analysis of the African and the Western aesthetics / Ortiz M. Walton -- Poetry: Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes -- Tripping with Black Writing / Sarah Webster Fabio -- Blackness Can, A quest for aesthetics / James A. Emanuel -- Black aesthetic in the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties / Dudley Randall -- Toward a definition, Black poetry of the Sixties / Don L. Lee -- Paths to the future / W. Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Drama: Negro and the American Theatre / Alain Locke -- Black Arts movement / Larry Neal -- I work here to please you / Loften Mitchell -- Black theater-GO HOME / Ronald Milner -- On Black theater / Clayton Riley -- Fiction: Introduction, Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright -- New Black literature, Protest or affirmation / Hoyt W. Fuller -- Black writer and his role / Carolyn F. Gerald -- Black writer vis-a-vis his country / John Oliver Killens -- Some observations on a Black aesthetic / Adam David Miller -- Can a metronome know the thunder or summon a God? / Ishmael Reed -- Function of Black literature at the present time / Addison Gayle Jr

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